He was the second Salem Village minister, but quarreled over his salary and left.

He had five children.

He was widowed three times.

His second wife died about a year after their arrival in Salem Village.

After his second wife's death, he remarried and moved to Maine.

He was rumored to have mistreated his wives.

One of his children was not baptized; a fact that was brought up in his trial.

He was well known for his physical strength.

Upon his arrest for witchcraft, his wife took everything that was valuable in the house, sold his books and loaned the money for interest. She then took her own daughter and left George's children to fend for themselves.

During his trial, witnesses testified that his two dead wives came to them in their dreams explaining that he had killed them.

He was also identified by the afflicted girls as the "Black Minister" and leader of the Salem Coven.

At five-years-old, she was the youngest prisoner of the Salem witch trials.

When questioned, she stated that her familiar was a little snake. She said it would talk to her and sucked blood from her finger. A red spot was found at the tip of her finger where she said the snake would suckle.

She was never the same after her mother's death and months in prison.

In 1710 her father, William Good, told the General Court that since her imprisonment Dorcas was unable to "govern herself."

She would mumble words under her breath if people failed to give her alms. People believed these mumbled words to be curses directed at them.

Her visits would be attributed to death of livestock.

At her hanging, the Rev. Nicholas Noyes asked her to confess to being a witch. Her famous response to him was: "I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink." Twenty-five years later, Noyes died of a hemorrhage, chocking on his own blood.

The Rev. James Allen and she once fought over the boundry of their two neighboring properties.

She worshipped at the Salem Village church, but remained a member of the Salem Town church.

Rebecca was hard of hearing, so she did not often respond to those who spoke to her.

She was 71-years-old when she was charged with witchcraft.

She was originally found not guilty by the court, but when the courtroom and the afflicted girls protested, Chief Justice Stoughton asked the jury to reconsider a statement made by one of the prisoners. Nurse was found guilty the second time because of the reconsidered evidence and her failure to respond to questions because her poor hearing.

Her reputation as a good and prudent women didn't help her escape the gallows.

She was excommunicated, but her decendents had it revoked on March 6, 1712.